Assessing the impacts of surveillance in Europe

David Wright is managing partner of Trilateral Research, which he founded 10 years ago. Based in London, Trilateral initiates, organises and participates in consortia, expert groups and advisory boards, developing scenarios and assessing risks associated with privacy, data protection, surveillance and emerging technologies. Trilateral has had many contracts with the European Commission, the Information Commissioner’s Office and the private sector. David edited the first and only book on Privacy Impact Assessment, published by Springer in 2012. His latest book is Surveillance in Europe, published by Routledge. He wrote the first journal article on surveillance impact assessment (CLSR, Dec 2012).